USA is no way the best in the world. Not even top ten… and that was before trump 2.0.

Bennyc, we will be like Russia and Iran in just a little over 2 months away. I'm disgusted with the 10-14 Million cowards who couldn't even be bothered to get off their ass to vote and defend democracy from Donald Trump in this election knowing the threat and absolute end of the United States and ALL our rights entirely. They showed up in 2020. Why aren't they here in 2024!!!! I don't expect exact numbers but even 80% of them would be along statistical rate of loss of life combined with new voters. 

Donald Trump has absolute immunity if he were to order air strikes destroying every single democrats homes and destroying the entire public infrastructure of every democrat leaning state. He can order military, with absolute immunity from any crimes that would come from it, and literally have every registered democrat murdered with shoot to kill orders. Do you even have a fucking clue what sinister level of diabolical evil a DICTATOR Donald J. Trump would be. 

Donald Trump doesn't love anyone or have the capacity to love. He doesn't love his family. He cheated on his wife. He probably had sex with his daughter Ivanka already. He already had engaged in pedophilia with underage girls. This guy has no qualms of ordering the killing of others. He won't do it with his own hands. Of course not. It would be orders directed at people who will follow his orders without question. 

Prove to me that Donald Trump wouldn't do such a thing. Not circumstantial evidence of him not doing so in his first four years. I mean, now, given he is now more mentally ill and derange than he was during Jan 2017 to Jan 2021. Look at what he instigated on Jan. 6, 2021. He would be worse. He even said, he would be a dictator on day one. No one who ever sought being a dictator, then becoming one, ever gave it up willingly after just one day as one. Humans are not that noble. Not even you, Bennyc.

Every citizen has an oath of allegiance to the United States and that means to defend it with your votes and defend it with your life if you must. "Being a citizen is not about your stupid opinion of who president is, its what you do for people around you, your community and society in general. " Sure, being a citizen isn't about my opinion but it is my rights that is being stolen by people like you who is too stupid to realize, that you just lost your rights. That also means, you won't be able to vote. There won't be another election. Donald Trump will just pass it on to one of his sons if they remain loyal to him by decree. You won't have a say, dumbass. 

What are you going to do to protect your family and friends from being shot up by soldiers, bombed by airstrikes, ran over by tanks, etc..... all under the orders of Donald Trump who would be able to do this with absolute immunity from any crimes???? 

Among the first things he's going to do is kill off Congress and the Supreme Court Justices. No other branches and no elections to replace the Congress which would be needed to replace the Justices. That's dictatorship 101 shit, man. 

Donald Trump doesn't care about anyone except himself.... literally. How do you like the idea of Donald Trump or anyone of his regime raping your wife and if you have a daughter or daughters, raping her or them? 

Is it that hard to figure that out? Donald Trump is a rapist and a pedophile. Maybe that's a bit by influence coming from his pedophile friend Jeffrey Epstein.

 I don't expect America to be perfect. I do expect Americans to fucking defend their rights from the likes of someone who literally said he would take that away. That's what is involved with becoming a dictator. It is part of the very definition of dictatorship. If people have rights, it is not a dictatorship. If they have no rights, but only privileges which can be revoked unilaterally by the dictator.... it is a dictatorship. I expect Americans to give a fuck. Apparently people just rather see this country fall into an absolute dictatorship. Donald isn't becoming a President. He is becoming a dictator. Supreme Court had already gave him the enabling means to do so. Now, I'm burden with having to possibly do what I can to end this asshole's regime with lethal force.

Even our Canadian neighbors have more spine to protect their rights than through apathy throw away all their rights to a hell bent dictator wannabe bitch-baby by making him a dictator. Have you f---tard ever heard of Nero and Caligula? How about Adolph Hitler? How about Idi Amin? How about any dictator in history? Would you consider any of them benevolent... nice people, who would never have you murdered or executed? It is disgusting to me that our citizens would just make Donald Trump a dictator. We haven't even shored up the damage the Supreme Court did by their absolute immunity decision. We haven't put measures in place to neutralize such an immunity through a Constitutional Amendment which is what is needed. Just passing a statutory law can be stricken by Supreme Court not an amendment to the Constitution. That would take 6+ months to get approved and ratified. We don't have anywhere near 6 months. It usually take 12+ months but it might be possible in 6 months at minimum if the states really moved like lightning to ratify and Congress took no more than 30 days to pass it from time of initial draft and do it entirely under 30 days. Then 5 months to ratify. It would be practically impossible to do it in 60 days!

Move to Canada buddy

Why should I move to another country because of dickheads like you throwing all of us into slavery to a malevolent asshole soon to be dictator? $1,000,000 (USD) and we can consider that so we can buy a 3000-3500 sq.ft. home (roughly along the same square footage) and the expenses associated with moving to Canada. It's not like we can just take our stuff and go there. Where's the stuff going to go? Apartments aren't going to big enough for the things we own. I'm not dissing Canada on that. That's just normal things to expect with moving to anywhere whether that be in the U.S. or elsewhere. Moving 300-500 miles isn't without expense. Already know that with a 1000+ mile move and I'd expect similar level of cost associated with it but adjusted for inflation and such.

Truth is, it might need to be closer to $1.25 Million + broker fees. That would probably be taking us into $1.5 Million (considering also taxation on the whole) We'd then would need to secure a place for around or a little under half a million and the cost of moving. Something like 30-40% would be taken for federal and state taxes.

Ricky, only you could take a "move to canada" comment so literally as to spiral away on moving & housing costs. Keep it up!

Moving isn't just packing your belongings and move. If all you have and fit inside 5 ft x 6 ft x 3 ft., maybe. When you have a home, there is a lot more belongings than that which can even remotely fit into an apartment. So much stuff that it would require like 2500 to 3000 sq.ft. of storage units that you'd have to pay for on top of rent just to get into a ~500 sq.ft. apartments which is average size for apartments. Apartments are usually under 1,000 sq.ft. Almost certain, we would have to find something like 3000 sq.ft. worth in storage units and an apartment of 500 to 1000 sq.ft. or find a house around 3500 sq.ft. to purchase and move into before selling the home we have currently. This would mean, we would have to have that money in the first place to even buy that property. You can't really sell your home until you have moved out of it, do any touch up work and do what it takes to bring it up to maximum selling condition. In fact, the reality is, I'm looking at closer to 4,000 sq.ft. which can be 3500 sq.ft. home living space and 500 sq.ft. of accessory structure or the like that isn't the garage on a lot that would allow off-street parking for all the vehicles. We can't assume on-street parking is going to be permitted in residential neighborhoods. I'm not ultra familiar with all the nuances of Canada and local laws and how that may differ from where I am. If I moved to Canada, the easiest province to move to would be British Columbia. It's just well... straight north (well sort of). As a building designer, I would have likely proceed with the Registered Building Designer process in BC. I would have to get more familiar with the regulations in Canada's National Building Code and what I would be allowed to do and not allowed to do according to the applicable laws. I can't assume what I can do in Oregon or Washington will immediately apply in Canada or in British Columbia. Moving is a serious decision making process that has to be done with careful and thoughtful consideration. It isn't like we can just run to the border like Mexicans in the movie tropes.

I have an idea about the processes (generally) for becoming a registered building designer in British Columbia. It's a process that I am learning about and have been even before the elections but the goal even then wasn't necessarily to move to Canada but provide practice up into British Columbia area. Now, moving or buying property in Canada would be something to operate from is something I considered would be later. Trump regime as a dictator could become a driving factor.

N.S., my point is in concern about making a rash move. If I simply abandon the home I am at, that's like losing half a million dollars or so. Sale of real estate is taxable income. At levels of above $350K, it's like 30% to 40% of your real estate sale would have to be paid to IRS and Oregon Dept. of Revenue. (I get taxed on income at federal and state level). So how does one buy same scale of property with equal interior square footage (or square meters) for only 50% of the amount of real estate prices in Astoria, Oregon. Is BC going to be that much lower in real estate value compared to Astoria? I am presuming similar levels. Fair Market value for my property would be in the $650K to $850K (USD) easily. However, sales have occured at a higher price level even north of $1 Million. Fair Market Value would in similar sizes is likely or presumingly going to be in the $650K to $850K USD level give or take $100K. I can't expect to get a similar property for $325K to $425K USD in British Columbia. That would be unrealistic. I'm just saying...Is it realistic to expect prices for real estate to be that much different?

If it was just myself and I had access to financial lending on this level, I could deal with less than 2500 sq.ft. and perhaps only pay in the realm of $250,000 to $450,000 USD. No decision when it comes to moving should ever be done is rash haste but sometimes unusual circumstances makes things a lot more risky to remain and you have to flee. That is my concern with Trump bringing that kind of unusual circumstances. That is the concern I have with what is possibly coming soon.

Yes, I do have to take comments like that with a degree of literal especially when a dictator is coming to power in 2 months and 2 weeks.

Donald Trump literally said he will be a dictator on day one. There is no such thing as benevolent dictators. They don't exist. They never existed, ever. Your foresight to see what is in front of you is about the vision range of Mr. Magoo.

I sure the hell hope that Donald Trump won't be the evil dictator but I don't have any faith in him. He has not proven to be a man of any good character.

Who are you to judge a man like Donald Trump? If you don't like him, don't vote for him, but to write an essay on an architectural site about how terrible he is? I would have respected you more if you drew a nice window detail instead of this bullcrap.

Who am I to judge him? AMERICAN VOTER jackass. We have every right to judge the character of those who are candidates and vote. That is what voting is. As with all Americans, we are victims of his treason against the United States... his levying war against it. His mishandling of the COVID pandemic. His literal stealing of government documents which belongs to OUR government with likely intent to use it as a purchasing of asylum in Russia. He's a complete fuck up and done nothing for America. Those that voted for him, do you think you are going to get more pandemic assistance? Think again. It's not happening. It isn't even in Trump's plan for his regime tenure whatsoever. Pandemic assistance wasn't even his idea in the first place. He would only line his own pocket by outright embezzling the entire federal reserve and stealing of everything in the vaults at Fort Knox. Yeah, who am I to judge him? A man with 1 trillion times more morals and ethics than that piece of shit. Who am I to judge a man like Donald Trump? A man who is a trillion times more fit to be the President and that kind of leadership than him. That fuckface didn't do a fucking thing but be a twit like the fuckhead that he is... on Twitter. How's that actual leadership? One thing, I do take accountability for my actions and inactions. He doesn't take accountability for anything. He blames everyone else. Yes, I did vote for Kamala Harris not Donald Trump. I never voted for that piece of shit in every election he ran for. Why? He doesn't have the qualities for being President of the United States. I have higher standards of expectations for such leadership roles. I might not vote myself. Personally, I do not want the job of President or the lifelong consequence that would have. Donald Trump isn't running for election to serve this country. He ran to pardon himself and avoid jail and prison and to commit more crimes while in office with absolute immunity. You sound like a Trump voter because you worship him as a god by praising him for qualities he doesn't even have. That's part of what is called idol worshipping.

Well unfortunately the majority does not think like you and voted Trump. Are you saying the majority vote is not valid? And lets not get excited Jackass.

the majority are dumb cunts tho... not really a good position. Enjoy more school shootings!

No, it isn't the majority of voters only the majority of those that bothered to show up. Trump had around the same numbers as 2020 show up... something around 72-74 Million. Joe Biden had over 80 Million voters in 2020. Some 10-15 Million voters didn't even show up to vote during this election that voted 4 years ago, but wouldn't vote in 2024. That's what I am talking about. He won because of too many no shows. Too many didn't show up to vote. Had they showed up as they did 4 years ago, Donald Trump would have possibly loss the election. So those 72-74 million that voted for Donald Trump, you guys like the idea of no longer having the freedom of speech, your guns (they will be taken away from you by Donald Trump... every dictator disarms his slaves which is YOU through military armed confiscators). Learn and educate yourself on dictatorships and what is done. Welcome to slavery... enjoy it for the rest of your life. I hope you are so happy and proud to have your wife and daughter(s) (if you have any) or granddaughters (if you have any or will have any) become sex slaves. I hope you enjoy that for the next 50-100 years or longer. Donald Trump's reign isn't going to just end in January 20, 2029. There won't be an election. The Constitution would be burned, literally. He will be placing the entire United States under perpetual martial law and all rights rescinded. What are you going to do about it? Not a fucking thing. I'm sure about that. It is telling to me that you like to see your wife, daughters (if you have any) or granddaughters (if you have any or will have any) be raped in front of you. Maybe you are that kind of sick pervert and join in on raping them as well. Maybe you are that sick. I hope not.

That was not in response to N.S., we just happen to be writing responses concurrently.

Trump won because of the support of weak men and women.

It's good to be American today, will enjoy this for next 4 years.

^and this is why the US is ridiculed.

Ridiculed by who? Lefty commies like yourself who only see the world through their mind and don't believe in democracy? Which country and which people are ridiculing  the US? are you kidding me, the whole world wants to move here, the entire humanity brain is here, all the greatest companies, visionaries are here. greatest cities are here. US is ridiculed? Common man, stop being delusional. 

^Now that is hilarious.

bennyc the world leaders, both friendly and not, laughed at Trump and the US during his last term. Our friend-nations are already figuring out how to do global initiatives without the US, We’re s laughingstock of a nation, way worse this time than last. At least the world would far a bit of respect for us if Harris had won.

Well that is your opinion and I respect it Donna, 72 other million Americans disagree with you, and they are not on here bullying you and your opinion, or being called a Jackass, moron for having a difference of opinion. 

I on the other hand, I don't think the U.S is the laughing stock, on the contrary, I can throw a dart on the globe with my eyes closed and hit any country that is way more laughable then us. The only few countries that are respectable are Germany, the beacon of Europe, and some of the Scandinavian Countries. But the rest? they are as laughable as Kamala's competence. 

Notice I mentioned countries who are both friendly *and* not. Both China and Russia are definitely not laughable right now. But they *are* laughing AT us and not because Kamala is supposedly incompetent (as people who refuse to respect education and experience like to call her for some reason? I really don’t understand that beyond trying to tell a lie often enough that people start to genuinely believe it? Like, VP Harris is in no way incompetent. It beggars belief to call her that. And I’ll add that if anyone makes sexist accusations of inappropriate relationships being the reason for her success I’ll ban them as far as I can within my capabilities as a mod.)

No reason to call out her education, her relationships, or her background. All you have to do is listen to her, or her interaction at foreign countries, anything unscripted. What an embarrassment to this great nation, what a waste of a first woman VP, and first woman of color VP.

I don't blame those who vote for him. They would vote for him, anyway. That's a constant we knew and can predict. Okay, we can blame them but they are along the same numbers, in fact, a slight less than previous election. I blame the ones who didn't show up to vote in 2024 but made the difference in 2020 that amounted to 81+ Million voters that voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but amounts to the deficit of voters that didn't show up in this election resulting is a shortfall of voters. The turn out being millions less. The numbers that voted for Trump is about the same. He didn't have much loss in votes. If you consider 70-80% of Republicans (just like the Democrats) only vote along party line. Political parties are religions in a sense. We knew damn well, we MUST voted for Kamala Harris so we can even have a chance in 2028 or even in 2032 to vote for another candidate along the lines. I don't think we'll be having a 2028 election at all if Donald Trump carries out his dictatorship plans. We won't ever have a chance. As long as Trump was seeking and was the candidate of the rival parties with dictatorship ambitions, we needed to vote for who would be the candidate that could win. Kamala gets some 70-80% of the registered voters who are Democrats for free who will vote for her because she was the candidate of the Democrat party. The same is true for Donald Trump but with the Republican party. You automatically get a significant core number of voters of your party in the major political parties if you get to be on the ballot representing your political party. That's a automatic given that has been the case, basically, since we've done elections in the United States. There are statistical constancy to be expected. Blaming voters who we knew were going to vote for Donald and consistently voted for him doesn't really look at the problem of why 10+ million Americans didn't vote in this election when it was even more important than ever to stop Donald Trump. In less than 3 months, we will be slaves under a malevolent dictator. I'm concerned about that.

I disagree, I think a great many Trump voters could have been swayed under the right conditions. In any case, they voted for him, they are primarily to blame. They do have free will, after all. 

Perhaps. we can blame them AND those 10-14 Million voters that were there in 2020 that voted for Biden but didn't vote in 2024 because they chose not to vote at all knowing full well that had THEY voted, Kamala would have had the 80+ million votes, more than Donald Trump had... and even win a number of states that ended up going to Trump. Yeah, collectively, they f---ed us. I'd expected 70-74 million voters for Trump because that's what he got in 2020. That would be status quo. These 10-14 Million that didn't show up and vote this time, those are the ones that actually cost us the United States and they knew damn well that Donald Trump was on the ballot and no less a threat to democracy than he was in 2020. Men that age don't change for the better. If they are evil, malevolent, immoral at that age, they will not change. 

Those are people that has to die before they will change or they would have to face extreme life altering circumstances so extreme it would be considered far into the realm in inhumane torture for years putting such a person near death's door for all that time in order to change such a person. I'm not suggesting that be done but is what it would take to change a person like Donald. To undergo treatment that would otherwise kill him but somehow magically kept alive to feel the pain and agony of a demonic penis the size of a blue whale shove up his ass constantly for a few trillion eons... maybe... might change him. Do you know a demon with a penis the size of a blue whale? That's probably a bad image to even visualize.

We can expect Donald Trump to seek being a dictator. This was expected of him. Blaming those that voted for him is easy to blame but 70-80% can't be swayed from voting their party line. They would commit suicide before they would vote the other party. Then you have a percentage of voters that are Donald Trump worshippers. You then only have 5-6 million out of 74 million that might be swayed but you'd only get a 50/50 change. So only maybe ~3 Million might have been successfully swayed. We'd still needed those that didn't show up to have shown up so we win the blue wall states and win win the popular vote. We needed some 80+ Million voters to have voted for Kamala. It is not realistic to expect 50-60 Million voters that voted for Trump to vote the opposing party's candidate. That's not realistic.

It would be convenient to blame those that voted for Trump than to hold those who were cowardice to not show up and vote to defend democracy from a tyrant wannabe dictator. Now that wannabe dictator will become the dictator he wanted to be at the cost of all our lives, our freedoms, our rights, etc. All of it, is pretty much gone.

America is great

Take that as a yes

I won, you lost.

Not a good look dude to declare yourself a ascistr. Good bye.

*fascist"

"I won, you lost." - I remember a character in a movie that said that. That character died.

I dont watch Mark Whalberg movies, I do listen to Justin Timberlake though, love his music

Looking at your post and comment history, there are many areas about the architecture profession that I would agree with you. Some areas, some disagreements would exist but that's difference of opinion. Above, I was simply pointing to a particular seen and the Danny Glover character did say that same line "I won, you lost" so it reminded me of that so I pointed to the reference above without requiring you to watch the whole movie. In this case, I'm angry not as much against the voters of Trump but those that didn't show up. I expect Trump supporters to support Trump. That's to be expected. Anyway, why so many just didn't show up to the election is bewildering when they showed up in 2020. I'm like WTF. I pray that things with Donald Trump over the next 4 years will not be as disastrous and that he doesn't act on his impulse to becoming the dictator he seeks and lusts about. I also hope it would be only 4 years. I'm concerned he would be a dictator until he dies and wills his dictatorship to a designated successor instead of allowing the people to vote. Take a look at North Korea. These are case points to be concerned about. This is why I am concerned with the outcome of Donald Trump being back in the White House.

Relax, nobody is becoming a dictator. The stock market is up, and there will be plenty of architecture work around.

Are you sure? Who or what is there to actually stop or prevent that from happening? We don't have the courts or the DOJ to be able to stop that from happening because of Supreme Court ruling at end of June, first day of July of this year... just a slight over 4 months ago. A ruling that makes Presidents absolutely immune to any and all criminal acts associated with core Presidential functions which giving orders to soldiers is explicit and clear core function of the President as Commander-in-Chief. He can literally use military as his enforcers and carry out his tyranny with absolute immunity so he can literally order the execution of 300 MILLION Americans and won't even be able to be indicted. Who is going to stop that if it did. You say nobody is becoming a dictator. How do you know? Did you personally ask Donald Trump? What assurances did he provide. He's not President, yet. So anything he says now, he can back out. If there is an assurance he is providing by guaranteeing there is at all times 7 soldiers armed with loaded desert eagles that will be within 15 ft of him at all times with orders by him telling them to execute him if he even attempts in any way or form to become a dictator and that is their sole duties and that they are not to take any other orders from him. They are on standing orders to assure he doesn't step one iota out of line venturing into dictatorship and therefore to keep him honest. Unless he literally does that, I don't trust him. I don't exactly trust that most soldiers to truly carry out their oath given that they are conditioned through military training to obey their orders by their superiors without questioning the validity of the orders. Commander-in-Chief... aka the President is the absolute highest commanding authority over all military of the U.S. If he says jump, they are to respond... "how high?" or simply jump. They are not to question their superiors. It is this rank culture that instills the culture of blindly following orders. This is how most are trained. Most in military are enlisted. Most enlisted soldiers are high school dropouts or only graduated with a high school diploma or equivalent. They are rarely the finely educated people of our country. This doesn't mean they don't later become more finely educated but a lot are not educated with bachelors or higher degrees. It is not the case. How do you arrive at this idea that "nobody is becoming a dictator". Supreme Court paved the road to allow him to be one within 10 seconds of taking the Presidential oath. He already has the lust of dictatorships and already spoken with a desire of being a dictator. Why should I believe you on that? What evidentiary proof and measures of assurance are you providing the make assurance that nobody is becoming a dictator? SHOW ME !!!!

How do you arrive at this idea that "nobody is becoming a dictator"? 

Supreme Court paved the road to allow him to be one within 10 seconds of taking the Presidential oath. He already has the lust of dictatorships and already spoken with a desire of being a dictator. 

Why should I believe you on that? 

What evidentiary proof and measures of assurance are you providing the make assurance that nobody is becoming a dictator? SHOW ME THE PROOF AND MEASURES OF ASSURANCE !!!! 

What are you going to do to prevent him from becoming a dictator or stop his dictatorial regime? What are YOU going to do to assure Americans will have the right to vote and to elect the next President in 2028? 

We are past the point of just trusting the words on a piece of paper. It is time you get off that comfy chair and prepare to take action and if necessary fight even if it means that it will come at the cost of your own life to fight for our freedoms, our rights, and for justice and liberty for all.

What's to build a bunch of fascist nazi architecture?

You might argue that because of the Supreme Court ruling that anyone voted into Office of President would become technically a dictator because of that absolute immunity decision. While that could be a technically true argument. The point in this election was who would you trust to not act on the impulse of said powers to commit crimes without the fear of being prosecuted, indicted, or stand trial. A person that is a law and order person by nature or a vagrant criminal who is a rapist, a pedophile, a thief, and who committed treason by levying war against the United States which was designed to incite this levied crowd to go and attack the capitol on the basis of the message "FIGHT OR YOU WILL NOT HAVE A COUNTRY ANYMORE". That was what they did. He levied that war. What flag is your pledge of allegiance to... the American flag or Trump's flag? Who is your oath of allegiance with? The United States or Donald Trump, which is it? My Canadian neighbors need not answer that. This is explicitly for U.S. citizens.

Do you seriously think waving a flag makes you a patriot? What a fucking moron. Waving a flag itself doesn't make you one. Maybe go look at the Holocaust pictures and think about what that means to have 100 MILLION Americans dead! Think about Donald Trump or any of his regime raping your wife or your children right in front of you will you are tied up with a gun pointed to your head. How does that image look to you, bennyc.

You live in a dreamland, are you ok buddy? did you no take your medication today?

Doesn't your leader consider someone in the military a sucker and a loser?

I think this is the denial stage.

Delusion is contagious. Wear a mask.

what a waste

are you referring to the last 4 years?

referring to the picture. Only fools get perked-up with pride by the sight of their toy soldiers. it's a sad brag that only works on other clueless m'ericans. Everyone else rolls their eyes.

Good God

Ok ok I get it, it was a bit too much, I will post something more tasteful next time. I got a little excited, I was listening to Chris Stapleton perform the national anthem and my emotions got the best of me.

Said the 15 million voters who couldn't hold their nose and prevent what is going to be an absolutely awful four years and far beyond.

I've done my share of venting about this but you know that's a good point about the propaganda. I don't have a lot of time to monkey around as I have other things to get done and just hope things pan out better than my impression as I exhaustively stated. Thank you all here for your patience on that. Yeah, I'm still pissed and angry but I can't constantly dwell on it 24/7 and shouldn't but wait. I have time to take care of orange pumpkin face in due time even beyond his mortal time. I don't have to worry, there are things in motion that he won't escape and nothing in the universe or beyond will be able to save him. He'll pay even if you don't get to witness it. You don't want to. Leave it at that. He's only mortal and his goons are, too! What they do now in mortality will cost them dearly and they haven't a clue. I think you'll have some sense of what I am talking about at least vaguely. Don't ask for the details, you just don't want it. You can enjoy life well enough without that.

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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss ...

^ Which is to say, exactly the same technically... and we will in fact get fooled again..... YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

^ comment just blew my speakers

It's even more on point of today than it was back in GWB's days as POTUS.

"A nation of pregnant god-fearing nationalists" Ramen.

lol.. yeah. Thanks for the comedy. The music has a comedic yet serious true side to it considering present context but love the comedy. It was part of what kept me somewhat sane during the previous Trump term. We're definitely going to need it !!!!

Happy Veterans Day you NYC prick - sorry about your bone spurs ...

who do you guys think that's a picture of?

PRESIDENTS HAVE ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY TO CRIMES if it is committed under the color of core official duties like duties as COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF like the authority to tell soldiers what to do, literally. If the President tells the military to do an air strike on your home, they are required to obey the orders and the President can NOT and may not be indicted or prosecuted because the President is ABSOLUTELY IMMUNE. 

Who said that? CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS and majority of the Supreme Court Justice on June 30, 2024 / July 1, 2024 in the immunity decision. While not explicitly my words, the effect of what I said above is precisely a consequence of the very exact words of that decision. Have your head actually been up your ass or Donald's since 2020? I actually read that ruling. It effectively made the Constitution's checks & balance measures UNCONSTITUTIONAL. If the President tells the military to kill off all of Congress and all the judges and justices of all the courts in the United States, who is actually going to stop that from happening? 

The Constitution is a worthless piece of paper, now. It has no authority in the United States. We haven't yet made the necessary amendment to the Constitution to neutralize the decision of the Supreme Court. This wouldn't even be possible with our Congress and modern day politics. It requires a party to have over 2/3 of each House of Congress to pass an amendment to the Constitution to get the votes needed because neither party is willing to work with each other. Both are too extreme left and right. No one in the middle ground willing to do what is the proper and morally right thing. 

We have dumb motherfuckers in charge because we have even dumber motherfuckers for citizens in this country. The United States, the democracy is officially dead at 12 o'clock noon Eastern time on January 20, 2025. 

Enjoy the Trump Imperial Regime. Enjoy slavery. Enjoy you wife, mother, daughter(s), and granddaughter(s) being sex slaves. Welcome to your new America dictatorship. I'm just going to wait until death comes and I be done with living in this shit show, finally. Humans are stupid and America has the most ignorant & stupid people in the world per capita.  

The bright side is I only have the rest of this life to live out. After that, I would be back to my life, long LONG ago, before these stars in the night sky been twinkling the night sky. I'll have that to go to and leave to YHWH/Elohim/Jehovah or whatever the f--- that scaly butt calls himself to deal with his people......... or not. Absentee God... like an absentee derelict father has been His modus operandi for awhile. Don't expect that to change, suddenly.

I'm not your "God" and I don't want the headache of listening to all you whiny bitches. 

I agree with you IF the Constitution actually means a damn thing anymore and wasn't effectively deemed or effectively made... unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

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To think U.S. is garbage your parents must have fooled you into thinking CNN is your PlayStation, feel sad for you, sad for the people you influence, and sad for the younger generation that has to take advice from anyone like you. Long live America.

bennyc, America is going to be so great that we will be all slaves and that our wives and daughters will be raped by Donald J. Trump and/or his minions on January 20, 2025. You think being a slave is the greatest thing in the world? You won't own your home anymore. Your guns will not belong to you and will be confiscated from you. You will be kicked out of your home and deported to Argentina. So, America is great..... YAY!!!! Lets all celebrate!!!!

I'm more worried about the illegals raping my cat then Donald Trump raping my daughters. And luckily I exercise my 2nd amendment right so I am prepared for anyone trying. Go America!

What 2nd Amendment right. You won't be having any guns soon enough. The military will have far superior firepower than you and will confiscate it from you whether you are dead or alive. Makes no difference to Dictator Trump. Tell me how you are going to fight 5,000 M1A1 tanks, 100 AH-64 Apache helicopters, 50 A-10 Thunderbolts, 100,000 extremely well armed Army and Marines? How's that going to work out for you? This isn't talking about snipers with 50 cal. BMGs that can take out your sorry as from over a mile away. I'm not even talking about the AC-130 Spooky that can shoot spent uranium rounds and eradicate your very existence into a smear scattered over 100-200 square feet or so with those Howlitzers. Good fucking luck, Benny! They can take you out with far less resourced dedicated solely on you. This resource would be for entire neighborhoods. They can just obliterate and pulverize entire cities into ruins and 'bulldoze" it over and all that nice new real estate owned by Donald Trump. Enjoy that red, white, and blue wrapped dick that is up your ass. Enjoy!

Wow, America is GREAT and GRAND!!!! It's such a marvelous to be fucked with a smile. Do you want more lies with that order? Donald's ready to give you more lies with that order!

Yes he was, and maybe some of our commie colleagues would understand his humor.

Greatest? Not even top 3 in North America.

Enjoy your deep-fried freedom eagles and school shootings you racist MAGA idiots.  The rest of the developed world will move along and progress while you slide further into ridicule.  

I didnt know commie baastads were this funny, you should be a sit down comedian. America is great, bow before her you pathetic little mind.

Nope. Enjoy your jesus gun cult and popular racism. We'll be over here enjoying fine things.

Jesus gun cult? waw, now you are insulting our Christian brothers and sisters? Not very inclusive of you.

Nonsense. A weakened US has very little to do with Putin or a nude Melania. But more to do with the absolutely screwed up global policies we have been pursuing since at least Bush 1 and the Clinton administration.

I'm still waiting for the release of the Russian pee pee tapes ...

If Trump invites me to meet him in person, you'll get the pee pee tape!

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Angles? fucking angles.... man, those imaginary lines with their pointy bits. Don't get me started an angles.

The U.S. is the greatest country in the world, its the most freedom loving, tolerant, and prosperous country in the world. The fact that there is U.S. Citizens criticizing its own country, is a sign of a progressive and tolerant system that allows for free speech and freedom of expression. I am blessed to be a citizen of this great nation, great people, and great future. I love you all, except you lefty commies with blood in your eyes.

this?

I love angles - especially if they're metal ...

Benny, you are objectively wrong on all counts. There are many different studies and polls that prove it. I'm sorry you drank the Kool-Aid and haven't figured that out yet. We have had great potential, but the reality (if you choose to face it) is different.

The only kool-aid I have drank is of common sense and reality. I am sorry you guys have been sniffing too much led pencil dust.

JCL-1 - I forgot about that!  Great clip!  Unfortunately, it's still true.

Non - I'm glad you got the joke first. :)

bennyc wrote:

"The U.S. is the greatest country in the world, its the most freedom loving, tolerant, and prosperous country in the world. The fact that there is U.S. Citizens criticizing its own country, is a sign of a progressive and tolerant system that allows for free speech and freedom of expression. I am blessed to be a citizen of this great nation, great people, and great future. I love you all, except you lefty commies with blood in your eyes."

We don't have the most freedom. 

Try harder little troll.  

How did you know I was little? Have you been talking to your mom?

BluecornGroup - I prefer acute angles but am open to most of them.

For angels, I prefer the Old Testament monstrosities that scared shepherds.    

Oh bennyc. I know who you are IRL. 

You don't make as much money as you claim. 

Your 'firm' doesn't do as good of work as you claim. 

You come here to troll to fill that gaping void in your self esteem. 

Try harder.

Oh you got me, now you are psychologist? Were not talking about my money or my work or my self esteem. We are talking about what is the greatest country in the world, stick to the subject, stop trying to pull a Kamala.

Serious question, do you travel to other developed countries (not including all-inclusive resorts) or have close friends or family there?

The ability to criticize one's own government is a measure of freedom, absolutely. We are by far not the only ones allowed to do so. And that freedom has a decent chance of being eroded by the upcoming administration.

Oh bennyc - try harder little troll.

Yes have traveled to many countries including Germany, UK, Greece, Turkey, India, Brazil amongst some of them. Have even lived in Europe for over 10 years. And every time I travel I come back and kiss the ground of this great nation. I don't think there is a chance of any eroding freedoms, I think there is a higher change of erosion with liberal policies, open borders, etc. Again, typical of lefty commies to make assumptions that someone who loves the U.S. and supports trump is somehow less intelligent and less exposed to the rest of the world. You guys should really stick to just drawing details and plans for your clients who are mostly Trump supporters. 

bennyc - I don't believe you. BennyCustomCreations. 

I've been to 25+ countries throughout my life. Several of them for months at a time. All were just as or more 'free' than the US.

Try harder little troll. 

Ok what is your point? The U.S. is the greatest of all of them, we run the world, we run this beech like Meghan thee stallion ran Kamalas campaign. This is what you wanted to vote for?

Keep trying little troll.

If you want to keep loving your body you know who to vote for.

Benny, I was honestly curious, I wasn't making assumptions, that's why I asked. I'm surprised that you think it's that much better here. My wife and I are working on plans to move to Europe when we are in a situation to; we have also spent time there, her more, and we find their values to be more in line with ours.

For what it's worth, none of my clients are Trump supporters; my design focus ensures that. I used to be less discerning but I have found repeatedly that if I don't share values with a client, we aren't going to work well together.

We do public work so some of my clients are Trump supporters. None of them are racist. bigoted, wannabe militia types similar to bennyc though.

How exactly did you come to the conclusion that I am racist, bigoted, and wannabe militia? because I exercise my right to bear arms? which is in the constitution?

Being proud of the idiotic 2nd A is one of the most perplexing thing to come out of the US. It's not something to be proud of, it's something to be deeply ashamed of.

That's not what the founding forefathers thought, they created the greatest constitution and country in the history of the big bang and the right to bear arms was inherent to that constitution. The 2nd amendment is the reason this country is not a dictatorship. But I get it, you are the type to think that everyone should think like you, vote like you, and act like you. You are right, the U.S. is not the greatest country for you, you need to move somewhere else.

The 2nd A is the reason why you're nothing but hot air chest pumping idiots with murder toys. Nothing but over-compensation for so many social shortcomings. Your 2A is so incredibly stupid, shame on you for promoting it.

I do promote the constitution of the United States. Again, trying to put me down or calling me names does not make you less delusional.

bennyc wrote:

"How exactly did you come to the conclusion that I am racist, bigoted, and wannabe militia? because I exercise my right to bear arms? which is in the constitution?"

I cam to this conclusion by your comments on this site.  

That's a flawed analysis, and flawed sources to judge someone and label them a racist, a bigot, and a hot air chest pumping idiot, idiot. On a separate note, you have any recommendations for an alternate notebook to moleskine? Mine keeps falling apart , need something more rugged.

It was an accurate description based on the information you've displayed above. You're not the only one out there wearing those labels proudly, unfortunately. But, to a more interesting topic, I've moved away from Moleskin and use Leuchtturm books instead. More colours and I like the soft covers.

I have thought about getting Leuchttrum, thank you, you are finally useful to me.

^Get the dot grid A4 (or A5?) size books. Works very well.

bennyc, you don't know jack shit about history since the "Big Bang" and even more of an absolute nothing about what was before. I do. All you know is that very little piece of history since humans started recording their events and opinions over archeological and anthropological and paleontological remains of this planet and samples from the solar system at the very best of what humans know. You know nothing about the other life on other planets throughout the vast universe which itself is just one cell of the body of the divine 'tree' of LIVING ETERNITY. That tells you how small you really are. Can also make sense why your little provincial squabbles is not for the divine 'avatars' of the living eternity to intervene with their divine supernatural powers as shiny knights to save the day every time some cunt decides to put himself or herself on the tracks of self-destructive harm.

I love those books NS. I used to use A5 size but have moved up to a letter sized sketchbook. I like the extra room and availability of heaver weight paper.

That's not true bennyc.

I know from people around you that you've turned down 'work' because you didn't agree with someone's politics and religion.

The only people I have turned down work from is illegal immigrants.

I don't discriminate against MAGAs. I design homes and renovations that have low environmental impact, using natural, locally-sourced materials where possible, with excellent indoor air quality. I do a lot of educational work on why those things are important. I make it clear that I won't use spray foam or concrete any more than absolutely necessary due to their enormous embodied carbon emissions. Ever since I've been up-front about those things, right wingers don't bother contacting me. (Yet I'm now scheduling into Q2 2026.)

I actually just got off a Zoom with clients I'm designing a new home for on the Maine coast. They found me through a real estate listing for another project they liked, not my usual channels, and I think they are probably right of center. Now that we have a nice design locked in, they want to consider things like plastic siding, which isn't something I do. At least I've successfully avoided it so far. Like most people I know right of center, they're very nice in person, and they are paying us well. But now that we're heading into the details part of the process, I have a feeling we'll have some battles.

bennyc wrote:

The only people I have turned down work from is illegal immigrants. 

I think you've turned down work from people you thought were illegal immigrants. 

Also, you don't practice architecture.

Nice job removing your Instagram page that shows your 'work'.  

Dude, you got me, like Kamala got the vote.

bennyc, I think I remember now your name from years ago. 2015, a post thread you at that time where you mentioned that you were an architect with 16+ years of experience (not assuming all that being post-licensure but cumulative). That was then. I don't know if or what your experience entails but that doesn't matter. If you actually practice architect and still have an active license, okay... you are a licensed architect. I don't care to go back through all that regarding your credentials. I'm not sure what this Instagram page that OddArchitect is even referring to. My criticism of your political views are not a criticism of your practice in architecture. They are different issues and I haven't a basis from which to evaluate your work as a professional so I'm not commenting on your professional practice until I have something to even evaluate from. Your posts and comments here are something that I'll not get too judgmental on. The forum is notoriously punkish at times so what standards are we to judge by when it isn't really in "professional capacity". The last I checked, being a licensed professional doesn't mean you are not free to express your personal thoughts requiring you to be "thought controlled" and your words you say be regulated except in a professional capacity in connection with professional services. Otherwise being disciplined for personal thoughts spoken or written on personal capacity for personal expression purposes would be unconstitutional infringement of the 1st Amendment, the 14th Amendment and maybe also the 5th Amendment. With that said, we can say communications here have been on the order of personal expressions which is a different standard of speech or writing than professional communication would require. I'm unsure where OddArchitect arrived at the notion that "you don't practice architecture". If there is in fact a basis for it, that would be an interesting fact to present here. I didn't go through the two post threads and all of bennyc's comments over the years to sort that out. I really don't want to.

His now removed insta page showed bennyc's work. Custom tile, welded fences, gates, ect.  Kind of a residential industrial design / sculpture.  

When you look up bennyc's actual name he's not an architect.  I may be incorrect though.  I brought this up as it could be reflecting poorly on his honesty and credibility.  

bennyc wrote:

 "Dude, you got me, like Kamala got the vote." 

So are you saying that that pic isn't of you, you're not Benny Custom Creations, and that you were or are an architect in the US?

You are going down the rabbit hole of delusion. I am an architect, I talk about moleskine notebooks, duh.

So that's not you in the picture, you're not Benny Custom Creations, and you're an architect in the US (licensed). 

Richard do you prefer moleskine or something else for your journals?

They are fine. I'm not picky about those. Some people might be more pickier than me but that's fine, too. I just don't generally use something made from animal hide or anything like that for such purposes. I think you can understand that.

You mean like the last time Trump was in office? Yeah, that went well. 

 Try harder little troll.

I thought you hated the idea of a nanny state.

Really? Cosmos... really? To me, you are just another fucking asshole... one of those Oathkeeper/Proud Boys asshole that attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Referring to a democratically elected president as a fascist is not only a direct insult to our Jewish brothers and sisters, but to the rest of the 75 million voters who voted for Trump. Delusion is contagious. If I was Trump, I would order an immediate lockdown of all infected minds, make you triple dose vaccinated with a dose of reality, and follow up with a minimum of a mile separation from the next human being.

Ben, there is not need to bring perceived antisemitism into the equation, thanks.

But its ok to bring perceived fascism?

He didn't win. There was voter fraud.

I agree, many illegal votes out there. You should storm the capital and try to redesign it.

That is your move.

2 move checkmate. You are out of your depth. Good bye.

Good bye, dont let the american solid core wood door hit you on the way out, U.S. Hater.

Even if Trump was democratically elected--just the amount of gerrymandering and voter suppression that gave Republicans a significant advantage says that he wasn't, but going along with the premise that he was--he still has ample opportunity to become a fascist. It's what his voters want; they don't want to be responsible for thinking for themselves, as a rule.

I have talked or corresponded with many of them and they don't worry about the details, just that Trump is a perceived strongman and will shake things up, and they believe his outlandish promises to make the economy better for them. He has a clear path to fascism.

And just because fascism was part of the Holocaust, doesn't mean that the term is antisemitic in any way.

Opinion is like you know what, everyone has one. Its absurd to think that Trump has a clear path to fascism but hey its your opinion. I voted for him because I prefer normal people over politicians, prefer successful people over people trying to gain power in order to be successful, prefer OG new Yorkers over anyone from SF. East coast baby.

bennyc wrote

"But its ok to bring perceived fascism?"

I don't think there is any perceived fascism.  Trump's been running on the idea of a demonized 'other' for his entire political career. The definition of fascism is basically what Trump does or attempts to do. 

Fascism - extreme authoritarianism and nationalism often manifest as a belief in racial purity or a master race, usually blended with some variant of racism or discrimination against a demonized "Other"

Now excuse me. Unlike you Benny,  I have actual architectural work to do. 

Bye.  

I do believe the American way of life is superior, look around you and look at all the races and backgrounds, yet all coexist and are part of building this great country. As far as race theory, you seem to have a lot more experience and knowledge with that then me, so I will let you take the lead on that.

You can believe what you want. The data and metrics do not support your beliefs. 

I get it - you want to feel special in some fashion. You cannot obtain that on your own merits so you do so by attempting to gain uniqueness by where you were born. 

I find it odd that you cite racial diversity and coexisting as the reason for America's superiority.  The actions of this country doesn't support this.  Your comments here, and those you support politically make you appear to be a racist and bigot.  

Data and metrics don't make countries, 75 million voters do.

Data and metrics do prove that your beliefs are not true. Also, I like how you're focusing on that and not that you support a fascist, racist, sexist, bigoted person and share his views. Very odd.

I get it.  You want so desperately to be on a winning side you'd do anything to feel special.  Good luck with that.  

I support a better system for America, Donald Trump is just the president. We had Joe Biden as president the last four years, I still thought America is the greatest country in the world. That's the difference between you and me. You wake up and hate the world and your fellow citizens who don't think like you. I wake up and feel blessed I live in the greatest country in the world so yes I am on the winning side.

Nice attempt. 

I only dislike people who attempt to hurt others and take away their rights as people. 

I don't care if people don't think or have the same view as me. You on the other hand . . . . well your posts here show a lot of hate, fear, and insecurities. 

My post show that I am anti US hate.

Your posts show that you seem to hate people that disagree with you. Hypocrite.

benny, you know, being a cuck for Trump won't pay the dividends you think. I thought the deep throating of Elon was weird, but you're giving up anal without the benefit of a reach around. It's going to be fun watching you "man" the front lines of the civil war.

You sound like a Meghan thee Stallion lyric, sad...very sad.

Mmm. With every response, your simping brings me clarity. I think I might know just the right couple of people for you. They like shaggy haired hobo types.

And before you even responded I could guess you are a dirty dirty little liberal foul mouth with lots of courage behind the keyboard, does your mommy know you talk like this?

Aw. My little mop-haired muppet. I like it when you squeal. It makes my heart sing. My mommy? I was just speaking with her, yeah, she approves, she was just telling me about how she clipped some magakkklan into the ditch off highway 9. As for my courage, well, suffice it to say, when comes to hobo twins like yourself, I wouldn't need to work too hard, my bone saws are kept sharp.

Oh, liberal? Nah. I'm straight up red.

Slow day at Benny Custom Creations huh?

No, just having an espresso while watching fox news before I get into it.

Sure, and you're an architect too.

espresso? That's not very white-power male-pew-pew american of you.  

Um, not sure where you are from but Espresso is a symbol of power. What are you having today, a french press coffee lefty latte?

Coffee in any form is sign of weakness.

4th cup of straight black coffee... the usual really. French press is for weekend working from the home office, tabarnak.

But, if it helps, the beans are from a local roastery who sources their product from very special locations throughout SA to ensure the farmers and environment are considered.  So, lefty black coffee I guess.  Still, no children were shot while brewing my coffee.

As a real American I only need the smell of gunpowder and freedom to wake up every morning. ;)

Also diet soda.  

Tim Horton coffee....xxl every morning, and an old fashion plain donut. A honey cruller when I am feeling fancy

Ooo, you so fancy! I really want a cruller now. Thanks Almosthip. Super diabetes, here I come!

That's why you have to stick to the old fashioned plain donut, and only be fancy once in a while

But fancy is so yummy!

I like my Americano

That building his horrible and deserves to be torn down. FBI deserves better.

So you're fine with big government telling us what we can and cannot like. I thought you against big government and government overreach. Hypocrite.

Yup, I am fine with government telling itself how to build its own buildings. Estupido Burro.

You've said in past posts that the citizens own the government and it's assets. Based on that the government is telling you how to build your buildings.  

Hypocrite. 

Hush little commie baby, go draw up some nice plans for your Trump boss.

Why don't you bennyc? You are in love with Donald Trump about as much as he is in love with Putin and Kim Jong Un. Maybe he'll accept your love letters.

Oh well well look who decided to join the party, welcome Ricardo, come stai

He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round perdition's flames before I give him up!

or in my paraphrase:

He tests me. He tests me and I shall be rid of him! I'll travel 'round the moons of Centauri and 'round the Gemini belt and through the galactic Charybdis before I will serve him!

Umm Ricardo, spero che tu abbia delle inferriate alle finestre

benny, Spero che la tua scatola sia sei piedi sotto terra e sia dotata di un pezzo di pietra con un'incisione che sporge da terra. Parlo inglese non italiano.

Actually you speak mostly bullshit

What is this smaarch... you are Bennyc's alter ego? Maybe vice versa. Hmmm.... you see, your fetishes with pumpkin face tribble wearing dickhead with a penis the size of a small mushroom is your problem not of my interest or concerns but keep off the lawn. I don't want Trump's pets shitting on the lawn. I don't want the Chantrelles becoming toxic.

Vai a farti il ​​culo da fascista e soffia il pene di Benito e bevilo mentre cavalchi il funghetto di Donald Trump.

sei uno stronzo così rozzo

Non ho iniziato io questa stronzata.

Benny started going off posting in Italiano instead of English. I initially responded to the Ricardo part with a little fun play with a reference to Ricardo Montalban in reference to Khan and a paraphrase. Then Benny decides to go all Italiano when he can speak English and just being an annoying shit but he's been an annoying shit so far in English as well.

indeed you started it - it's your post. There's also a difference between being rude and being crude. Do us all a favor and look into some medication to help with your affliction, obsession or whatever the F it it is. You simply can't keep your mouth shut. You don't know how. Every damn post you make is a diatribe 

Yes, I started the thread. No, I won't shut my mouth because that is what Trump would want. I rather die and become a martyr than be his slave.

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Welcome to our America ----

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Our new Flag:

My Asshole Merit Badge:

Kiss where the lips are!

Is that Kamala

imagine whirled peas ...

Maybe you do - I don't need to

Popcorn, he-ah. Get ya popcorn!

This is very disingenuous and hypocritical coming from a lying troll like yourself bennyc.  You've been trying to agitate things on this forum for several years. 

You're just upset that people know who you are IRL and are calling your your BS.  You're scarred that your comments here will be linked back to you and you'll have to deal with the consequences.  This includes your dishonesty about being an architect.

Scared of what? and of who? I am an open supporter of Trump as I am republican. And you are so far off its funny. If yo would like we can both reveal both our identities, who we work for, and where we live, and lets see who has more to lose, you little internet punk. You just had nobody like me on here to challenge your commie ideas and your fake intelligence and now that someone is pushing back you try and discredit me as a troll. 

 At least I am not using my employer time on here. 

^openly racist and socially backwards. Not a good brag.

bennyc - I do not use my employers time here. Any time here that is not work related I do not bill out or count as general overhead.   

You've stated here that you're an architect in New York. There is no record of your architectural license in New York or Texas.

As far as identities. It's widely know who I am and where I work.  It's in my profile.  

Are you not Benny Custom Creations?

bennie, you still chattering, racist muppet?

Here goes another one, you guys need a dose of Trump today

The post isn't about being Anti-"American", bennyc. It's a post of Anti-"Stupid racist misogynistic dicktator-loving Motherfuckers". (Yes, I purposefully spelled it out that way).

Real Republicans, largely, are no longer affiliated with the political party. Real republicans fought for the freedom of black slaves. Real republicans were what we now call Progressives. They fought for what was morally right. You are a fucking Dixiecrat, bennyc.

Real Republicans wouldn't even accept or vote for Donald Trump to be their candidate. You fucking mentally deranged gun brandishing terrorist KKK/Aryan Nation/White Supremacy affiliated thugs ("DIXIECRATS") pushed away real Republicans and most of them left the GOP. It was taken over by terrorist treasonous thugs.

Richard, I am going to stop reading your posts or comment back because you are beyond a normal human being, you have talents my friend, talent to make people believe that there is walking and talking rabid creatures roaming this planet. holy shit.

If you support Donald Trump, you are not an American and you are an enemy of the United States and should be shot on sight. We are going to war and I'm on the side that has you on the hitlist of people to kill and remove from the living because you support attacking your own country. You support taking away the rights of Americans. You support turning this country into a dictatorship. You are an enabler of a soon be dictator's rise to power. You are a fourth Reich piece of shit. Donald Trump is a NAZI. He's affiliated with ALL of the white supremacist hate groups including the neo-nazis (Aryan Nation). You are a racist piece of shit. You trying to make America a "white-only" nation. At this point, you already chose to be a racist, misogynistic, asshole. This country doesn't need a orange face walking butthole with a tribble on top. That asshole couldn't fucking operate a casino and make a profit. How's that guy going to run this country? The same spectacular level of fuck up. You wanted a real business leader as President, there are others that are far better at business and you could have coaxed into running for President. Why didn't you pursue those individuals for President? FYI: I'm not anti-Republican. You're not a real Republican. You are a Dixiecrat. Do a little history about how you got all these neo-confederate southerners into the party. Before they joined the party, they were once in the Democrat party called Dixiecrats. The democrat party pivoted away from the "losing" position of the southerners continued strive to make blacks slaves again. Blacks aren't going to be your slaves. They will rather die than be that again.

I'm at a point that I would rather those neoconfederate states leave the United States. They been nothing but trouble since the Civil War. I'd vote to boot those states from the union.

I wonder, how many times did Trümp move on her like a bitch. You know bennie, everyone knows that you smell like the back end of a pigs rectum.

About as bad as Diaper Don von Shitzenpantz?

b3tadine[sutures] how do you know what the beck end of pigs rectum smells like? Do you and Richard hit up pig farms on the weekend or is that from your gender neutral bathroom experience?

Cheer up. Considering the clown car of his cabinet picks you could be a shoe in for Architect of the Capital.

Benny, try harder. Your empty flex won't work here. We're better than you so that's just something you have to accept and live with.

BennyC, it is you white supremacist mother fuckers that are the nazi. Your party is affiliated with the neo-Nazi / Aryan Nation, Nazi. It is your party that has those fucking assholes for the most part. You guys are the anti-Jews... anti-blacks... anti-Everything_NOT_White. You guys are the ones pushing racial discrimination and enslaving Americans. You are the fuckers trying to enslave. You are the assholes that are the nazi fascists. Communism and fascism are two different things. Stalin's Soviet Union was an enemy of Hitler's Nazi regime. How about get your facts straight about history by actually learning history... like go to fucking college and take some classes in World history and U.S. history. Oh wait... you might actually have to graduate from your day care center.

Enslaving lefty communists would be a good idea.

You couldn't enslave a tick to drain the blood from bruise.

a tick blood from bruise? wtf man, why is this forum full of weirdos

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump

Impersonating another person? I know you are not Donald Trump. He is worst at spelling than you.

At least he has a stable mind, unlike you. Do you even see what you post and write on here? You are not ashamed by that? I post trolls because that's what I do, you troll my country, I troll you.

You call raping women and underage girls stable? You call that a sign of mental stability? If that is the case, there is something seriously wrong with you. Now, lets consider this, economics. How is tariffs that Donald Trump plans to do, going to be a good thing for Americans? Have you considered that such businesses would raise prices to cover the tariffs. Even if China raised prices, to manufacture the products they make, in America, it would result in an increase in price of about 5x to 10x what they are now all because you cost 10x per hour. The price of anything is really labor. It costs virtually nothing for the dirt. It is the labor costs. Even cost for materials is all composed of two things... "embedded labor cost" and "profit margin". That bolt's raw material cost is maybe 0.01% of the cost of that bolt. 60-80% of it is layers of embedded labor, energy, and associated material costs that was involved in the entire process from raw earth material to the finished product. The rest is the bolt manufacturer's profit margin. Then you have markups on top of that for wholesalers, distributers, retailers which is mostly profit and some labor. When exporting or importing tariffs may be tacked on. This drives up price. This is simply a government tactic to drive up costs. The problem is, driving up costs by tariffs are always passed down to consumers because businesses stays in business by making more money off their customers or clients than their expenses. In short, your customers and clients are who pays your bills and expenses. That's how businesses work. If they don't, they won't be in business for long and may have no place to conduct business from. As a business, you bake your expenses into the price of the goods/services you provide. That is why you might charge $3.50 for a cappuccino that cost you maybe 50 cents in coffee grounds and other stuff (proportionally adjusted). You got that barista working for $15-$20 an hour. So for what maybe 5 minutes to take the order and prepare it and all, that's maybe a $1.30 of labor. Now, that's $1.80 and you have $1.70 of contribution margin. From that $1.70, you have about 1/4 to 1/3 taken for taxes. So about $0.5 in taxes. So you might net profit around $1.20. Overhead accounted for that can be $0.75 to $1.00 net profit.

Tariffs would mean you have to drive up prices because those costs underpinning your cost goes up.

I just ordered 3 more.

did you order male or female or non binary?

We got the thumbs up and down... we need a middle finger one.

Here's what I must make do with in response to bennyc:

bennie, I didn't know you wanted one, xs correct?

Wow... a lot about nothing. Oregon, for example, is a vote by mail. This also means that when you register, you have to already go through a process that requires proof of ID/citizenship. One being proof of U.S. citizenship which is what you need to do. For one, proof of citizenship or citizenship status in a state requires you to prove you are who you are. You need birth certificate and such. You need to do a number of things for that state ID which would also have information associated with it like social security number. That would be already proving U.S. citizenship. To register to vote, you need to have a state ID. You don't need an ID to vote. You need an ID to register to vote. Actually, it can be a state ID or driver's license or permit. Which the latter two also serves as ID but also has the indication of driver status. Driver's Licenses are state IDs but not all state IDs are driver's license. Since not every citizen drives. In every case even to drive legally, you need to prove your citizenship. 

Even if you don't register online, you would fill out a voter registration card which requires your ID. You might say, hey, you only need to enter that or the SSN but not both. True but to even get the ID or driver's license or Permit, you need to provide your SSN and U.S. citizens have SSN numbers and that's on the ID and also will show up when election/voter registration officials check validate the ID# and there they will see if you have an SSN. The ID and SSN are linked and SSN is part of the information on the state's ID and there to get state ID, you must prove you are a resident in the state. Oregon ID requires photo taken. Voter registration can at time of submission require you to show ID at that time to validate you are who you are. 

What Counties need to do further is verify is you are a resident in the county. You have to do all this stuff by the 21st day BEFORE the election in order to vote for that election. Otherwise, you must wait. That Newsmax info is misleading to a certain degree. Very few exceptions where an acceptable identification other than SSN or Oregon ID. 

Also to note: while you can register to vote at between 16-18, you can NOT vote because you will not receive a ballot until the first election that will either occur ON your 18th birthday or after it. This is because ballots are not counted until 18. So yes, you can fill it out while you are still 17and it be submitted on or before election day or something along the line and counted at that time when you are 18. 

Another thing, signatures are compared to prior signatures of the person. I know this for a fact. Early on in elections where there wasn't a lot of signature history to compare to, I actually had to go in and verify it was me because the person thought because I had signed it a little differently because the way I was having to hold the ballot against the wall was a little different than otherwise. Of course, signatures will vary a little every time a person signs. There isn't ever an exact identicality. However, how you hold the ballot if going to be different between signing on a table. Actually we sign the outer envelop that we put the ballots in not the ballot itself. When you sign enough things, they will likely not question it if there was not many signatures to compare to. Again, they do notice things like that. Even if you omit signing with your middle name initials. This also involves ID check. So their info is a little off or misleading as it is presented on that screen. In addition, IDing people after they filled out their ballot (unless the ballot is kept and remained sealed) is a legal issue. Who you explicitly voted for is not for the government to record. 

During vote counting, the procedures are such that the those recording the votes do not know who voted for who or what issue. I might not be perfectly clear in my explanation but there is a process. That is why there is a security envelope that is signed. The parties who takes the ballots out of the envelope puts the ballots in a secured box. The counters do not see the original security envelopes with signatures. They are a separate set of people. This way, the information about who voted for who is not disseminated. They put the mechanisms in place to protect from such dissemination of information about who voted for who kind of stuff. The whole IDing stuff is for registering to vote. 

In places where you may vote at a voting booth, you might not be registered to vote until that day so they need ID to verify you are qualified to vote by age and other requirements on election day because many cases, where you can only vote in-person at the voting booth, must be done ON election day. You have to be 18 years old or older on election day. This IDing is before you get a ballot. 

With mail-in ballot, we do the IDing in advance and if we are going to be 18 years old or older on the day of election day, we get the ballot and we can mail it in or go to the county office like I do. As close as the County Office is to me, I can walk there and not worry about postal service fucking up. We don't have to ID every damn time voting takes place. 

America first

such a worthless and simplistic Right Wing motto - how does raising the cost-of-living help anyone? ...

Saying your country first is right wing? Which planet have you lived on the past 4 years with inflation and cost of living? You need to pull your head out of Uranus and come back to Earth.

I didn't sat the country is RW I said the motto was - half of the country is Democratic by the way ...

No issue with half of country being Democratic, I wouldn't want everyone to be Republican. The more the merrier. My personal background, beliefs, and just general agreement with is toward Republicans. I do not bash you for being a Democrat, I just bash anti U.S. rhetoric on here. If saying America first is a right wing Motto, why should I give it up and let right wingers stop me from using it?

actually you should make it into a bumper sticker ...

I don't stick anything on my car, my car my choice.

The problem with "America First" is not those words. It is the associated politics of Donald J. Trump. It is the political bullshit associated with demonizing the other by sublime inference that the other side is "America second" or "America last". First off, Republicans that are saying that is lying and outright bullshitting. First, both parties are mostly dedicated to America. What the "America First" notion is, is saying to say "Fuck You" to our allies we made since World War I not just WW II. Throw away everything that we done that built America into the superpower that it became during the Cold War. We didn't do that on the nonsense notion of doing it on our own. America became this powerful military and economy because of globalism. 

If it was all just domestic insularity, there wouldn't be companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and so on. Even Elon Musk would not even have 1/3 of the capital he has. It is because of a WORLD-WIDE economy. We wouldn't even have this global-wide internet. What Trump's mentality on America First would be to segregate America from the global world even separating the United States from the world wide web. Separating its entire information system from the rest of the world. Funny thing was, U.S. was connected to the world in telecommunication before the 20th century. In fact, we were already taking steps to joining the global stage. Global economy works best when we do business together for the mutual benefit not some insular xenophobic fuck you mindset. 

The problem with the statement of "Make America Great Again" infers a presumption that America is not great at all. That's what Donald Trump's bullshit he had been selling you. He'd sucker you into believing America sucks and not great in order for you to vote for him. He wants you to give up what makes America great so he can literally fuck in the ass with you having a grin.... singing "America is GREAT" when in fact you lost literally everything... your rights, your property, etc. All of it belongs to him and he OWNS you without paying his own money for it. 

He got people like you to pay him to buy you. He bought you out of your own money not his. He con jobbed your dumb ass so he can own the United States. It's a real estate steal he did on your dime. Now, America was great. Soon... it won't be America at all. I really hope you enjoy that diamond encrusted artificial penis that was shoved up your ass that you paid Donald to shove up your ass. 

Congrats!

That's a lot of ass talk man, disgusting.

so Mr. NYC Prick you tell us what it means to you - the USA just exits the world stage and become a bit player? ...

bennie, it's kinda weird that you're an architect and don't know anything about inflation, and who is responsible. I mean surely your prices for snowballing and felching hobos on the lower east side have gone up, right?

Why would an architect know anything about inflation? I could care less about inflation, I just add another project to my work load, make more money, and life is good, this is America beeches. Stop complaining an go work out there. But no, you assholes are busy talking about asses and hobos.

Bennyc, if you don't know about inflation and its impact and how it would impact your business when it goes up beyond the rate which people's payrate increases to such an extreme that they can't afford to build their dream project and so now they have to cancel it because it now just went up 2x what is would have cost them because some idiot starts an tariff war that does nothing by increase costs that the consumer pays... and how that would even impact you... You should be end up being a hobo starving on the sidewalk in hopes that you can guzzle down enough alcohol, meth, cocaine, and every cocktail of drugs imaginable to end your life. Maybe someone will notice you dead after a dozen dogs pissed on your corpse and people start noticing the stench and flies hovering around your decaying body. You see, if you are too stupid to consider the impact of inflation on your business, you shouldn't be in business at all. You are currently enjoying the benefits of Joe Biden's economy that he set forth. This gain you are getting of clients are because of Joe Biden and his economic policies that he implemented 2 years ago taking affect. Donald Trump's economic policies may or may not immediately take effect but it is possible for policies to have impact that is rapid and drastic that happens very quickly. Donald Trump's policies as planned would be devastating to the economy and cause prices to balloon on the order of multiples. He wants to do this to drive up rent. However, this also means there will be less new home owners. There will be less people able to afford to build new homes or buy them. So in turn, you'll find that there will be less clients and things get tougher for you to survive when the economy tanks. So yes, you will find the economy won't be like it is today. You think its bad today, it will be worse when Trump undermines what makes this economy working.

So benny, you admit you don't understand how inflation works or factors into your business, and you don't understand what it is to not care less. For it

*Got it. I'm starting to enjoy your trolling, keep going.

I just like that Mr. Casbarro says he's not trolling. He also says he's an architect. I sure wish my should would heal up so I could get ourtdoors. I'm just going to sit here and see how deep bennyc will dig this hole.

Time to get back to some PT then some painting.  

Carry on.  

After your painting, come back on here for a daily dose of Trump, its good for your health.

Yes bowling ballz, I am not an expert in inflation, I just know it skyrocket it while your incompetent Biden and his giggly sidekick kamala were in power the last four years. So I associate high inflation with them, thus I would not like to vote for them.

First off, the inflation started during Trump's administration. COVID pandemic was still an issue during Biden's first two years. His policy changes that resulted in the economy rebounding started to show in studies about his 3rd year. That is normal latency between when a policy is implemented and when you see results. It takes around a couple years. Trump's policies were implemented pre-pandemic and then you had the pandemic itself. What drove up prices in the middle of COVID was supply logistics issues and manufacturing issues including in China but elsewhere as well. Had Trump adhered to military's protocols for response in biological warfare and the swiftness required by those protocols in November / December 2019, he could have implemented measures that would mitigate viral spread throughout the US with emergency quarantine mandates on all international travel between US and all other nations. He scuttle butt his way even denying it and calling it a hoax even until he got COVID in around October 2020. He was the idiot in charge. This lead to massive shutdowns and supply issues. Prices went up. They never go back down to where they were before the pandemic because they'll make more money with the higher prices even when the items are costing less in BOM due to logistics correcting and otherwise getting things back in order. So they kept the prices because consumers were already paying the new norm. The pandemic lasted long enough that these prices became the new norm. Donald bears some responsibility to this pandemic and the cascade of consequences that occurred.

Richard, you are not qualified to express your opinion on this subject, just stick to your sketches and drawings, you are just a little mosquito making a lot of noise waiting for Daddy Trump to squash you.

we're so glad you're fully qualified ...

Have not pretended to be qualified in politics, inflation, or bash people who voted differently then me. I am qualified to respond to bs and to delusion. Trump on the other hand, is very qualified, so qualified in fact that he got voted to be president, not once, but twice. Let that sink in next 4 years while you come on here post subjects that you are clueless about. Stick to your damn drawings.

you need to get back to whatever you do ...

74 million voters doesn't say a lot. It can be that America has 74 million voters that are a combination of morons and those that only vote their political party and does no critical thinking about who they would vote for. Most Americans don't even think. They stopped thinking when puberty kicked in. Most Americans are lazy, dumb, ignorant, and don't think about the consequences of their actions or decisions. They don't care if everything goes to shit. They already think everything is shit. 

Why are you voted for Trump, in hopes to get PUA and PUEC money? Get more COVID relief dollars? You think tariffs hurt China? It doesn't. Why? They pass on the cost to you the consumers. Yes, YOU are the one who now has to pay $6-$8 for a gallon of milk when it used to cost $3-4. You would now have to pay $2000 for what you used to pay $1000 for. It is you who now has to pay more. 

Your cost of living will go up 1.5x to 2.5x over the next couple years but your pay would only increase maybe 10%. You see, it is YOU who gets screwed. Once price goes up, they NEVER go down. How is that helping you? How is that helping Americans? 

You'll lose your home or apartment and possibly become homeless because you can't pay the new rates on things. You can't compete with China labor. You have to work for 75 cents to $1.50 an hour. Maybe $2.00 in some spots in China. How would you even be able to buy any food to even live on. You'd be living on nothing but the small cup of ramen noodles for the rest of your life. That's all you can afford. No milk. Nothing else. 

At your $30 an hour, you aren't going to compete with someone that can do your job for $3/hr. and live comfortably because of where they live, a gallon of milk would be 30 to 50 cents not $3-$5. That amount of U.S. dollars goes a lot further in those places than here in the U.S.. Here, everything is inflated. 

Inflating your labor rate only inflates cost. Putting tariffs on things only inflates cost to the consumer. Businesses always pass their expenses to their customers. If they didn't, they would be OUT OF BUSINESS. They are FOR-PROFIT businesses for a reason. 

It all circles around to fuck you!

You are a nasty nasty woman Richard.

Women put up with more pain than your penis ever could.

Additionally, we can't fill these highly demanding A/E positions - look at all the job openings just on this website and all the unfilled positions on local AIA sites - my contractor associates can't fill skilled construction jobs including tradesmen - I have a manufacturing business and I can't find machinist or other factory floor employees - we have to go to robotics and imported machine assemblies from Mexico.

You cant fill A/E positions and skilled construction jobs because you are raising kids that are worried more about pronouns and working from home then real men and women to take this country forward, make America great again and bring back pride in trades, pride in being a man and a woman.

Bennnnnnie and the Nuts….Benny, we’ll let you know when we see real men and women, right now we just see hobo muppets simping for nazis.

Yup my hero, whose yours, Caitlyn Jenner?

Caitlin Jenner is a Republikkkan, dummy.

Typical lefty commie strategy to post extremist views and whatever this monkey bs is trying to discredit a great man like Elon, job creator, savior of the world, an American success story. Tasteless.

Tesla has only 140,000 employees world wide. https://seo.ai/blog/how-many-people-work-at-tesla#:~:text=The%20latest%20employee%20numbers%20show,when%20their%20workforce%20had%20140%2C473.

Happy I have a toyota then. No1 car company in the world.

Of all the newly overvalued stocks, Tesla saw the biggest price jump following Trump’s victory. In the three days after the election, Tesla surged 27.75%. The stock is trading at a 57% premium to its fair value estimate of $210 per share. “Tesla CEO Elon Musk has campaigned for Trump and may serve as an advisor to Trump during his second term as president. While Tesla could benefit during a Trump presidency, we’re maintaining our $210 fair value estimate and narrow-moat rating. At current prices, we view Tesla shares as overvalued, with the stock trading more than 30% above our fair value estimate. 

https://www.morningstar.com/stocks/post-election-rally-pushes-dozens-stocks-into-overvalued-territory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Vy4lC0h-s

Billionaire, revolutionizing car industry, space industry, and you think he should have stayed with emerald mining? Now that's delusion 101 mixed with some other pronouns

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I5bMTdvqOl8

Scared little internet punk hypocrite.  

Too bad I already know who you are , where you live, and where you 'work'.  Don't worry.  I won't dox you.

Bennyc, if your last name is Casbarro then you are not a licensed architect in New York state. It is possible that you are licensed in another jurisdiction but we can look to all nearby states to New York as well as anywhere else your posting history would lead us to consider and the nearby states to those as well

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okay... lets see.

Um sure, whatever you need to convince yourself that you are not the alpha and omega in the human centipede.

Casbarro - you're at home watch football but you're still actively monitor the site? Wow, that's pathetic.

At least I have a reason why I'm at the office over the weekend and coming here to take a five minute break.  

Yeah, it's CFL grey cup tonight!

That's is tonight!  Also I'll be making kababs on the grill. :) 

My day is completely open though. Since I can't ski, mountain bike, or climb in the gym I figured I'd do my team a solid and help out a bit.

b3tadine, if I had my way, he just might be the Alpha & Omega of the human centipede... lol... or the human ouroboros. lol...

This post is not about me or if I am an architect, I could care less what you weasels think, what this post is about is anti US hate, and I am here as a daily reminder and to give you a daily dose of reality. If you don't like it, don't post political opinions on an architectural post and not like peoples responses because I will slap you with a daily dose of the greatest country on the planet and a daily dose of daddy Trump.

[laughter] - just goes to show you how politically warped some NYC architects can be ...

I know smaarch is an architect. I have figured out who he is. 

Lets get to the policy matters instead of pursuing perpetual hatred even to this matter. Trump has no power over my soul and he has no authority on me on any matters beyond this life of my current body my soul is connected to on this world. That aside... to the policy: 

What is it about Donald Trump's policy that you saw as a reason to vote for him? (directed to Trump voters) Don't list me Kamala's or Biden's policies. I want you to express about what it is about Trump that you wanted to vote for him.

Awesome. so now you are a stalker.
Why am I not surprised?

Now, I already knew that awhile back. I think you even disclosed it. Whether that post still exist or was erased when a thread of deleted in the past. It isn't stalking to be aware of what people say or write. This doesn't mean I am going to go out an call you or anything like that. It doesn't take a slide rule to figure you out. Connect the dots. Don't assume that is stalking. Figuring out who someone is isn't always that hard.

You're a master of bullshit. This is stalking.

principal of a firm, years of practice spanning a period of time, and all that does narrow the list down. There is two possibilities that comes close but one of two possibilities would be a better fit if one closely examines past comments which may narrow it to one being the likely individual.

Yup that's stalking. I wouldn't be surprised if dead bodies were found in your backyard. Hey I can use the same conjecture.

I haven't even said who you are. I been on this site for quite some time. Lets not draw more attention to that, okay. As to dead bodies.... sure, there might be dead lizards, dead insects, and so on in the back yard. Who the hell knows, maybe ancient burial site of indigenous populations. Who knows. We haven't went out of the way to dig up the ground to any great depth at all. So no. No human remains had ever been found on site.

Keep fucking with me and we'll see

Any half-wit with a brain that reads your past posts & comments can deduce who you are for the most part at least down to a couple or so options. You think people can't come across your past posts from a decade ago or more? What do you think "History", right next to Contact, refers to?

What? Is merely being aware of who one is talking to is stalking, now? Attention to details is now "stalking"... oh my.... welcome to the internet.

If you don't want anybody to know who you are... don't be on the internet.

If you are afraid of drowning, stay the fuck out of the pool.